KARACHI: The motorway police, south zone, have acquired a piece of land along the Superhighway in the city to build a motorway police complex to house all offices of the law enforcement agency currently set up in a rented place, it emerged on Thursday.

The inspector general of the motorway police, Zulfiqar Cheema, performed the groundbreaking at the site near Gulshan-i-Maymar and called the event a landmark achievement for the agency, which was facing ‘administrative control issues’ due to temporary offices.

The ceremony was also attended by the DIG motorway, south zone, A.D. Khawaja, Karachi administrator Rauf Akhtar Farooqi; Masood Alam, director for municipal services of the KMC; Moin Malik, chairman of the Fleet Operator Association of Pakistan, RRF DIG Dr Aftab Ahmed Pathan and Hyderabad DIG Sanaullah Abbasi.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2014